TY - BOOK AU - Higgs, Liz Curtis TI - Parable of the Lily SN - 9780785272311 U1 - Fiction HIG-L PY - 1997/// CY - UK PB - Tommy Nelson KW - Fiction KW - Young Learners N1 - Maggie, the farmer's youngest daughter, loves getting gifts, especially mysterious ones. One wintry day, she receives a package in the mail. She excitedly opens the package to find a bulb buried in a crate of dirt. This was not what Maggie expected. She had hoped for a doll or a game, not a bulb that would one day become a plant. When spring comes, she finds the bulb in the cellar and tosses the lifeless thing into the garden, never to think of it again. . . . Until she walks outside on Easter morning and finds the most beautiful lily she has ever seen. Through the unique gift of a bulb, Maggie discovers the power of grace and forgiveness and the true meaning of Easter ER -